Carol Raffo

Summary

Carol Raffo has been serving Belmar, New Jersey, as a personal life coach since 2006. Raffo aids her clients in clarifying, setting, and achieving goals. To that end, Raffo provides clients with the support necessary to stay focused, discover solutions for their obstacles, and utilize creative strategies to produce results. Carol Raffo earned both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. Raffo excelled in academics, as well as extracurricular activities, attaining a 4.0 grade point average and becoming a member of the Psi Chi Honor Society, the Phi Omega Epsilon Honor Society, and the Competitive Ski Club. Her keen ability to balance priorities aided Carol Raffo in her first post-graduate position in 1999, as a Consultant of Telcordia Technologies' Employee Assistant Program. Raffo assisted the director of the program, counseled employees, organized a domestic violence group, and designed the company's Workplace Violence Policy. Telcordia Technologies maintained the policy even after Raffo's departure in 2004. Carol Raffo has experience in counseling a wide variety of individuals, from addicts and criminal offenders to married couples and families. Raffo is a member of the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors and the Association for Experiential Education. She also volunteers with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and counsels survivors of domestic violence. In her leisure time, Carol Raffo enjoys being physically active by playing basketball, participating in snow sports, and utilizing her membership in the Appalachian Mountain Hiking Club.

Interest

Work History

Work History

May 2006 - Present

Personal Life Coach

Carol Raffo

As a therapist I can make a better decision about whether a potential client is appropriate for coaching. Coaching is about helping high-functioning clients define and achieve goals, it is not psychotherapy. Clients come to me for time management, career, business, creative, self-growth, and spiritual issues. I offer my clients feedback, structure, and support. The relationship between myself and my clients is based on mutual trust and respect and is a designed alliance.

Education

Education

1997 - 2003

Bachelor of Arts

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Portfolio

Carol Raffo, a personal life coach, enjoys participating in projects through the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC); they enable her to keep active and healthy while simultaneously expressing her concern for the future of outdoor recreation. A therapist residing in Belmar, New Jersey, Carol Raffo is among the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 100,000 members and supporters, including those in the New York-North Jersey chapter, who advocate for quality outdoor recreation and conservation along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail that runs from Georgia to Maine. Protecting the outdoors and its valuable resources through sustainable forestry and recreation management, the Appalachian Mountain Club strives to maintain the integrity of the Appalachian Trail and the surrounding region for future generations. Since 1876, the club has pursued projects such as the Maine Woods Initiative to protect acres of forestland. This project was started to counteract development that threatens 100,000 acres that include a 25,000-acre ecological reserve. While the Maine project is the largest conservation and recreation project undertaken in the club’s history, it has many other concerns, such as its opposition to the Northern Pass Project in New Hampshire. That project includes the proposed construction of a 186-mile-long power line. The club has also expressed concerns over mining law changes, and it is among 85 New England organizations urging lawmakers to invest in regional forests. To learn more about the AMC, visit http://www.outdoors.org.